Mold for burial-vault top sections.



Patented Mar. I2, l90l.

B. F. yAu CAMP. MOLD FOR BUBIAL VAULT TOP SECTIONS.

( Application filed Nov. 23, 1900.

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BENJAMIN F. VAN CAMP, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO VAN CAMP BURIAL VAULT COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MOLD FOR BURlAL-VAULT TOP SECTIONS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 669,950, dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed November 23, 1900. Serial No. 37,469. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F.VAN CAMP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Molds for Burial- Vault Top Sections, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my present invention is to provide a convenient and easily-used mold for the aroh'shaped top or cover sections of similarreference characters indicate similar parts, Figure 1 is a top or plan view of a mold embodying said invention as the same appears when ready to receive the cement of which the section to be molded therein is composed; Fig. 2, a longitudinal sectional view of the same on the dotted line 2 2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a transverse sectional view thereof on the dotted line 3 3 in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4, a plan view similar to apart of Fig. 1, except that the movable parts are omitted or removed.

The main structure of this mold consists of a main body portion having a floor 1, ends 2 and 3, and supporting side bars 4, which terminate in handles It, all of which are strongly and firmly united together. Where, as in the case shown, the top-section piece is adapted to fit onto one end of a vault in building, a fillet or raised portion 5 is also laidin to produce the necessary recesses and forms a part of said main structure. Removable side pieces 6 and 7 complete the walls of the mold, these being comm only held in place while the mold is being used by clamping-bolts 8, having thumb-nuts n. A removable groove-bar 9 is laid in the end of the mold opposite the end where the raised portion or fillet 5 is located and forms a groove in the corresponding end of the part being molded, into which groove when the vault is being assembled fresh cement is laid, by which the parts are united and made Water or air tight. Small triangular fillets 10 are placed in the corners of the mold, at the ends of this groove-bar, to form spaces into which fresh cement may enter and extend down and connect with the cement in the grooves in the sides of the vault. (Not shown.)

An arched vault-section of the character designed to be made in this mold contains an iron truss-frame 11, the arch members of which are embedded in the cement or body of the section and the chord members of which, when the section is finished extend across horizontally in the concaved or arched space below. An important feature of my present mold consists of means whereby the arched section can be molded above these chord members without cutting or troweling. In order to do this, the bottom 1 of the mold has transverse slits cut therein, down through which the chord members of the truss structure'pass when said structure is placed in the mold prior to the introduction of the cement mixture. In introducing these in order to provide a continuous floor for the cement mixture vI place within the arches removable fillets 12, the lower sides of which are straight and rest upon the chord members and the other sides of which are convex or arched and when the truss structure is in position are level with the remainder of the floor 1 of the mold and receive and support the cement mixture when the same is placed therein. After the section has been molded and is sufficiently set or hardened to be removed from the mold removal is effected by first loosening the side pieces 6 and 7, which is'done by turning back the nuts 17, on the bolts 8 and then removing the.molded device, including the groove-bar 9 and the filletpieces 12. After this isdone the groove-bar and the fillet-pieces are easily removed from position, the former by being merely lifted out and the latter by being afterward pushed sidewise, so that the vault-section is entirely free from the mold parts.

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. The combination, in a mold for molding arch-shaped articles wherein metallic truss- Work is to be embedded, of an arched floor having transverse slots therein, and fillets adapted to be inserted in the truss-frame and to occupy and fill said slots.

2. The combination, in a mold for molding arched vault-sections, of an arch-shaped floor having suitable ends and sides, the fillet or raised portion 5 at one end and a removable groove-bar arranged at the other end above was hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 15 20th day of November, A. D. 1900.

. BENJAMIN F. VANGAMP. [L'. s]

Witnesses:

CHESTER BRADFORD,

JAMES A. WALSH. 

